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by coderoffortune 1179 days ago
Why calm down yourself when you feel unwell? Keep on searching for possible headache causes. Three years I go I felt unwell, I went to GP and instead of trying to help me, they have been comforting me saying "all is fine, you are fine, it's just a virus"... Wasted 6 months going to GP trying to explain weird symptoms and finally was diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma. Went through 2 lines of super toxic treatment and stem cell transplant. Listen to your body, you know better how you feel! Neither GP nor ChatGPT care about you!
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> Why calm down yourself when you feel unwell?

Clearly you've never been debilitated by health anxiety.

Every story like this comes with ten more about someone obsessively ruminating about symptoms that turn out to be nothing, not least specifically because of horror stories like yours.

There is no one right answer for all situations. But as someone who struggles with health anxiety, it really fucking sucks and yes, there are damn good reasons to seek relief from that sense of constant and unrelenting dread.